My papo collection (updated september 2011)

HKHollinstone wrote:

Congratulations Anna! Sorry about the Kudu, it's funny the horns on your one look different to mine. Yours look like they're lower down, whereas mine are upright

Fortunetly, I have good glue, so you can hardly see that it has been broken

Thats weird about the difference, but when it comes to horns, I have seen these diferences in most brands

:) :)

wonderful group of new animals, anna you should be very happy, because at this end of the year your collection grew a lot, congratulations.

HKHollinstone wrote:

Congratulations Anna! Sorry about the Kudu, it's funny the horns on your one look different to mine. Yours look like they're lower down, whereas mine are upright

Because this is a pegasus-kudu...

Gabe wrote:

HKHollinstone wrote:

Congratulations Anna! Sorry about the Kudu, it's funny the horns on your one look different to mine. Yours look like they're lower down, whereas mine are upright

Because this is a pegasus-kudu...

A,
Schleich may be easier to find where you are(not for me). No matter what,
I'm a Papo devotee and prefer their product over Schleich.
If you want fine detailed artistic pieces get Papo, if you want figures just for the
sake of collecting get Schleich et al.

baltimore zoo wrote:

A,
Schleich may be easier to find where you are(not for me). No matter what,
I'm a Papo devotee and prefer their product over Schleich.
If you want fine detailed artistic pieces get Papo, if you want figures just for the
sake of collecting get Schleich et al.

The thing is, I want schleich, I want papo, and safari, and collectA, bullyland, chap mei, funrise, new-ray, k&m int., pv, kaiyodo and all other brands out there. And I want every single animal of every single brand...

So it´s better for me to focus on schleich that´s easy to find here, or else I will spend extreme amount of money to find every papo I want, and I will still buy all schleich and other brands I can find here

So instead I save money and once ore twice a year, I can make these big orders with wonderful animals from papo (and safari and other brands hard to find). It´s less expensive for me, and I get extra happy when the orders arrive

Kikimalou wrote:

Congratulation Anna... And too bad for the kudu . Opening a box is an art every collector need to improve one day

Roger wrote:

Yes, I need a badger!
I don't like Papo horses too!
About the feet of the hippo I don't like the way like the sculpting work ended, too flat, anyway works nice in balance terms. But I love this hippo!

If you want to see some closer pics of the Papo badger, you will find them here : [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

...Not the BADGER, but BEAVER, Chrisoph! By the way, Roger, not long ago I,ve bought at once two Collecta beavers (for possible display "beaver,s colony" )... But! Though this models is some cute, but it,s not correct to real beaver (as our friend Christoph say " not accurate " ) The Collecta,s beavers have too "sharp" muzzles... So Papo,s beaver is more better and correct, and old model by Schleich too. But anyway I,m glad to have different models of beavers for possible future display "The beavers colony"!

A,
You're hardcore! I'm very picky about which figures I buy. For instance, the Papo
beaver is a very nice detailed piece, but because it's to large(in proportion to
the Papo black bear), I won't get it.
Plus, Schleich's figures are not my cup of tea, so it would have to be really
an amazing piece for me to purchase. I like Safari ltd especially their Wildlife Wonders series(of course the elephants, white rhino are not big enough as compared to the others). Their new Indian rhino looks good though!
Where do you order your figures from?

Sergey wrote:

Kikimalou wrote:

Congratulation Anna... And too bad for the kudu . Opening a box is an art every collector need to improve one day

Roger wrote:

Yes, I need a badger!
I don't like Papo horses too!
About the feet of the hippo I don't like the way like the sculpting work ended, too flat, anyway works nice in balance terms. But I love this hippo!

If you want to see some closer pics of the Papo badger, you will find them here : [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

...Not the BADGER, but BEAVER, Chrisoph! By the way, Roger, not long ago I,ve bought at once two Collecta beavers (for possible display "beaver,s colony" )... But! Though this models is some cute, but it,s not correct to real beaver (as our friend Christoph say " not accurate " ) The Collecta,s beavers have too "sharp" muzzles... So Papo,s beaver is more better and correct, and old model by Schleich too. But anyway I,m glad to have different models of beavers for possible future display "The beavers colony"!

Oh, ther are 3 animals that I make some confusion with the English names, they are, beaver, badger and Roger!
Anyway thanks for your pics, Christophe!

Great additions, Anna!! Orang and tigress are still on my wish-list.

Arrakai (Thu Dec 09, 2010 8:48 pm) wrote:

Finaly got the majestic Hippo He looks soo good, but he´s bigger than I thought

Oops, for me it was vice versa - I thought the hippo would be bigger before I got it.

baltimore zoo (Fri Dec 10, 2010 10:17 am) wrote:

...The Papo line is more refined and artistically detailed than Schleich.

I've got the contrary opinion :) Apart from Papo tigers, their figures more often lose the game to Schleich in terms of refinement, to my mind. (Especially it concerns the quality of painting and materials).

baltimore zoo (Mon Dec 13, 2010 2:09 am) wrote:

...I'm very picky about which figures I buy. For instance, the Papo beaver is a very nice detailed piece, but because it's to large(in proportion to
the Papo black bear), I won't get it.
Plus, Schleich's figures are not my cup of tea, so it would have to be really an amazing piece for me to purchase...

:) I use the same approach, but the other way round - it would have to be really an amazing Papo piece for me to purchase And I don't buy even excellent figures if they are too large for my displays (Papo gnu and kudus are bright examples).

Here´s the last four papo I got for last year.

My papo collection hasnt grown that much in 2010, I only have 45 papo as a total, but I hope it will grow a little more in 2011. ´cus I realy like papo

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The cougar is soo small

What about this beauty. Favourite papo of the month

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Uuuuh, they look great !

I will HAVE to get more Papoa

Congratulations Anna, funny my last model for 2010 was the Papo gnu too!!

I love the komodo dragon.. Is a really realistic figure :)

HKHollinstone wrote:

Congratulations Anna, funny my last model for 2010 was the Papo gnu too!!

Haha, it seems like we think alike

remowshake wrote:

I love the komodo dragon.. Is a really realistic figure :)

Ye it looks realy great, but I would have liked it even more it it were more brown/grey, think that color fits them better, even thou some komodos are more green

I am going to have to look seriously at Papo now Anna, great figures!

remowshake wrote:

I love the komodo dragon.. Is a really realistic figure :)

Very good modelling indeed... But the colors are a bit odd

Papo wildebeest is so great! I love him!
But I would love to see female with calf in 2011

HKHollinstone wrote:

Congratulations Anna, funny my last model for 2010 was the Papo gnu too!!

...Well, Papo,s Gnu is some big compare with Schleich standard. But! It,s most dinamic and beautiful model of gnu among of the all known brands!

Like I said in a previous thread, this year I´m gonna focus a little more on papo.

And I must say, it has been a realy good start of the year for papo, with over 20 new animals to my collection.

Some of them came from trades from this forum (Big thanx to Christophe and nyarlahotep)

Here are the pics of the ones I found last month

My first papo dinosaur Never thought that was gonna happen
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Some farmanimals
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Forest
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Cats and dogs
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And of course, the wonderful animals I got in trades
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But come on, whats up with the hind legs
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You cant realy see it clearly in the pic, but the legs are very unnaturaly apart. The setter looks like it´s about to take a piss or something

Congratulations Ana!

the leg is open up too wide or learn how to balance.

Congrats Ana! You got alot of nice new figures!!!!!!!!!

It's a good start, Ana. Congratulations.

You may also consider getting the Dinosaurs: T-Rex, Allosaurus, Spinosaurus and the Velociraptors.

Also the Wildlife: Crocodile, Hippopotamus, Rhino, Lioness with a cub and the Tigress with a cub. :)

Congratulations Anna! I agree with Ron all the animals he has listed there are must haves.